Between Rationalism and Empiricism
Subtitle: Selected Papers in the Philosophy of Physics
By: by Erhard Scheibe ; edited by Brigitte Falkenburg
Contributors: Falkenburg, Brigitte
Publisher: Springer New York
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 627
ISBN-13: 9781461265559; 9781461301837
Subjects: Quantum theory; Physics
Description: Erhard Scheibe is one of the most outstanding German philosophers of science. He has written extensively on all the problems that confront the philosophy of mathematics and physics: rationalism versus empiricism, the laws of nature, and reductionism. He has published books on the logical foundations of quantum mechanics and on the reduction of physical theories. Little of his work has been translated into English. This collection of 38 essays is intended to remedy this omission and to help to make Erhard Scheibe's philosophical ideas better known to an international audience.
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Table of contents: title: Contents: I. Between Rationalism and Empiricism; title: II. The Philosophy of the Physicists; title: III. Reconstruction; title: IV. Laws of Nature; title: V. Reduction; title: VI. Foundations of Quantum Mechanics; title: VII. Spacetime, Invariance, Covariance; title: VIII. Mathematics and Physics; title: Acknowledgements; title: Literature; title: Index.